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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 OFF PAGE ONE OWL: Birds are known to nest in ¿replaces, usually Ày out before they are lit Page 4A East Oregonian Continued from 1A Finally, John caught sight of the owl in a mirror in a back bedroom of their North Hill home. One side of his body appeared singed. They readied a stor- age tote. John approached the bird and snatched it with his hands. The Pendleton Police Department connected the couple with Blue Moun- tain Wildlife, a Pendleton organization that rehabilitates wild birds. Soon, John was on his way to the compound. Blue Mountain Wildlife Director Lynn Tompkins examined the little western screech owl and noticed his head appeared singed and that he’d lost feathers. “He’s missing most of the secondary feathers on his left wing,” Tompkins said. She also suspected the adult owl was experiencing eye and lung irritation, but said the bird is fortunate to have es- caped with only minor damage. How- ever, the missing feathers won’t grow back for months. “He only molts once a year,” Tom- kins said “He won’t get new feathers until next spring or summer.” Until then, the owl will stay with other injured, orphaned or sick birds that inhabit the Blue Mountain Wildlife compound. On Monday morning, Tompkins lift- ed the bird out of the carrier and hand- ed him to her husband, Bob. The owl looked at Tompkins with round, un- blinking eyes as she injected him with an anti-inÀammatory drug. To insure that he was hydrated, she ¿lled a syringe with saline solution and sent the liquid through a tiny tube that she inserted into the bird’s mouth and to the stomach. She wrapped him in a clean towel and Pendleton Main Street statue ballot Vote for one in each location. 100 BLOCK [ ] Poker Jim [ ] Clarence Burke [ ] William Minthorn 300 BLOCK [ ] John Spain [ ] Ernie Gallaher [ ] Aura Goodwin Raley [ ] Bonnie McCarroll Return ballots to the East Oregonian, the Confederated Umatilla Journal, the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce, the Pendleton Public Library and the Nixyaawii Governance Center. placed him back into his carrier. The owl’s appetite is good, she said. He polished off two mice since he arrived and weighs a hefty (for a screech owl) 200 grams, or about half a pound. Tompkins said this isn’t the ¿rst bird found in a ¿replace, though the birds usually Ày out before the ¿re is lit. Owls often nest inside abandoned squirrel or woodpecker cavities, man- made nest boxes and the occasional chimney. Turns out the owl alerted the Schlichtings to a problem with their chimney. A recent wind storm had knocked down the spark arrestor which normally would have kept the owl out and the sparks from escaping. “As quick as the roof is safe to get back on,” John said, “I will get up there and replace it.” Staff photo by E.J. Harris Blue Mountain Wildlife Executive Director Lynn Tomp- kins uses a syringe and rubber tube to hydrate an injured screech owl as her husband Bob Tompkins holds the animal on Monday at Blue Mountain Wildlife in Pendleton. 300 block of Main Street, across from the Stella Darby statue. The ¿rst name on the ballot is John Spain, a rancher from Union and the 1911 Round-Up champion. If Spain is selected, statues of all three ¿nalists from the 1911 Round-Up — Spain, Sundown and George Fletcher — would line Main Street. Former Pendleton Police Chief Ernie Gallaher is the most contemporary ¿gure of the bunch, having died in 2007. The police chief from De- cember 1956 to January 1986, Gallaher was brieÀy ¿red by the Pendleton City Council after he refused to allow the reopening of brothels. Gallaher was rehired after almost the entire police de- partment quit in protest, sealing the death of Pendleton’s legal sex trade. Known as the “Mother of Pendleton,” Aura Goodwin Ra- ley helped found Pendleton with her husband, Moses Goodwin. The Goodwins later opened a hotel on Main Street, which Aura continued to operate after Goodwin died and she remarried carpenter H.J. Raley. Aura Goodwin Raley also donated the land for Pioneer Park and the Umatilla County Courthouse block. When the city renamed its streets in 1939, Aura Avenue was the only street commem- orating a person by their ¿rst name instead of their surname. The ¿nal name on the ballot is cowgirl Bonnie McCarroll, whose last Round-Up was in 1929. Planning to retire after the rodeo, McCarroll’s horse som- ersaulted and bucked hard, caus- ing her to hit her head six times. She died 11 days later at the age of 32. Ballots will be available through the East Oregonian, the Confederated Umatilla Jour- nal, the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce, the Pendleton Pub- lic Library and the Nixyaawii Governance Center and can be returned at each location from Dec. 1-Dec. 19. On Dec. 21, the arts com- mittee will tally the results at the council chamber annex room at Pendleton City Hall at 3 p.m. The public will be able to watch the tally and provide testimony. While the previous election allowed for people to submit their vote via email, Houk said the committee will honor only paper ballots this time to avoid voter fraud and to make voting more accessible to older vot- ers. ——— Contact Antonio Sierra at asierra@eastoregonian.com or 541-966-0836. LE BOURGET, France — With dramatic vows to save future gen- erations from an overheated planet, the largest gathering ever of world leaders began two weeks of talks Monday aimed at producing the most far-reaching pact yet to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and avert environmental havoc. “We should ask what will we say to our grandchildren if we fail,” British Prime Minister David Cam- eron said as the U.N. climate sum- mit opened under heavy security on the outskirts of Paris, two weeks af- ter the extremist attacks that left 130 people dead. “Instead of making excuses tomorrow, let’s take action today.” Even before the gathering, more than 180 countries pledged to cut or curb their emissions, but scienti¿c analyses show that much bigger re- ductions would be needed to limit man-made warming of the Earth to 2 degrees Centigrade (3.8 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times, the internationally agreed-up- on goal. The biggest issue facing the 151 heads of state and government at the summit is who should bear most of the burden of closing that gap: wealthy Western nations that have AP Photo/Evan Vucci U.S. President Barack Obama, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting held on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference outside Paris, Monday. polluted the most historically, or developing countries like China and India that are now the biggest and third-biggest emitters of greenhouse gases? “Addressing climate change should not deny the legitimate needs of developing countries to reduce poverty and improve living stan- dards,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping told the conference. The last major climate agreement, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only rich countries to cut emissions, and the U.S. never signed on. Since then, global temperatures and sea levels have continued to rise, and the Earth has seen an extraordinary run of extreme weather, including severe droughts and storms. This new round of talks seeks to produce an agreement that would re- quire all countries, rich and poor, to take action. While the speci¿cs have yet to be worked out, the pact is meant to chart a path toward reduced reliance on coal, oil and gas and expanded use of renewable energy such as wind and solar power. The negotiations will focus on whether emissions targets should be binding or voluntary and how to ver- ify that countries are hitting their tar- gets. Another big issue will be how to provide the ¿nance and technol- ogy that developing countries will need to reduce their emissions and cope with the effects of rising seas, intensifying heat waves and Àoods. “The future of the people of the world, the future of our planet, is in your hands,” U.N. Secretary-Gener- al Ban Ki-moon told negotiators in his opening remarks. “We cannot afford indecision, half measures or merely gradual approaches. Our goal must be a transformation.” China and India say they want the agreement to clearly reÀect that industrialized nations bear the big- gest responsibility for the problem. President Barack Obama offered assurances that the U.S. isn’t trying to shirk its duty. “I’ve come here personally, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do BRUSSELS (AP) — Tur- key won’t apologize to Rus- sia for shooting down a war- plane operating over Syria, the Turkish prime minister said Monday, stressing that the military was doing its job defending the country’s air- space. Ahmet Davutoglu also said Turkey hopes Mos- cow will reconsider eco- nomic sanctions announced against Turkish interests following last week’s in- cident. The Turkish resort town of Antalya is “like a second home” to many Russian holidaymakers, he said, but refused to yield on Turkish security. “No Turkish prime min- ister or president will apolo- gize ... because of doing our duty,” Davutoglu told report- ers after meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stol- tenberg in Brussels. “Protection of Turkish airspace, Turkish borders is a national duty, and our army did their job to protect this airspace. But if the Russian side wants to talk, and wants to prevent any future unin- tentional events like this, we are ready to talk.” Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian warplane on Nov. 24, sparking Cold War-style tensions between Russia and NATO, of which Turkey is a member. One of the Russian pilots was killed, while a sec- ond was rescued. On Monday, the body of Lt. Col. 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